All of our goals and targets are never, I reiterate, they are never a straight line or a straight path. If it is everyone on this planet Earth would be successful and rich. Do you agree? Last week I had a very terrible week at my workplace. Issues were complicated and complex. I tried whatever resources that I know of and even resort to online help but nothing worked. I was hitting dead-end one after another. I was very frustrated. So I decided to sit back and take a break for two days. It doesn’t mean I did nothing. I still wake up as usual at 5AM, have my quiet time, feed my two dogs, and leave my house at 6:35AM for my morning jog. 8.4KM will take me one hour and approximately eleven minutes.
The difference is that after my shower, instead of going straight to my desktop or workstation to work or to reach out to my mobile phone to make calls, I just sit back, enjoy my coffee and visualize the problems that have been hovering over me for the past week. I will dismantle each and every part of the problem. I will also find out the origin of the issue that is hampering me from completing my tasks.
I took out a piece of A4 paper and start to plot a mind map of the task that I would like to see completed by 23rd September 2020 that was precisely two days ago. After I have plotted the task in the middle of the plain paper, I then drew octopus tentacles around the task and each tentacle denotes a different attribute. They are as follows:
Behind that piece of an idea written on a 4 x 5 card, they will write down their name behind the card. I have also established a panel of judges to oversee the ideas presented by our staff and colleagues. Ideas are judged based on their practicality, cost-effectiveness, easy implementation, and how much revenue it can generate based on an allocated time frame. Good ideas can be awarded up to RM100 each. By the end of the month, the panel of judges will select the top 3 best ‘blue ocean strategy’ and they will grant the three participants to present and elaborate on their ideas.
From there the panel of judges will pick one or even two ideas and put them into action or implementation. Then we will monitor the progress and its disadvantages along the way. You will be very surprised to see that each and every colleague of yours will have something to propose to the company that actually creates that sense of belonging. This will also foster a mutual understanding between the company and the staff.
When people feel they are part of the organization, there will be lesser human relational problems. I am not afraid of machines or systems giving problems or which are defective. Human relational problems are the most complex and most difficult to handle or resolve. Do you know that with just one person and can cause an organization to crumble or collapse if not detected at an early stage. The troublemaker can be just like a rudder of a big ship that can determine the direction of the ship. As small as it is but it tells where it wants the big ship to sail. Powerful isn’t it?
You will keep hitting pathways that are completely sealed off if you keep repeating what didn’t work and expecting a change in the results of similar action. Know when to retreat and find another route whilst remembering those entrances of the life maze that leads you nowhere. If you don’t, you will be circling around the same challenges with no apparent solution at sight.
So, what are the underlying causes that make you stuck in your own life maze?
1. Stubborn
2. Lazy
3. Fear of failure
4. No goals in life
5. Procrastinate
Unless you learn to detach yourself from the above five deadly and toxic traits or attitudes, you will never succeed.
Being stubborn or stiff-necked is the worst trait you can ever have. First of all, you hate admitting you are wrong. You just want to be right not once but all the time. You hate asking for help or even accepting them. If you put two stubborn people, it equals DISASTER.
In short, stubborn is defined as being unwilling to change your opinion or stance, in spite of good reasons to.
Lazy people are generally people who do not take action. They are just hearers, not doers. Lazy people are excuse fabricators, they will have 101 excuses and reasons why all things and everything do not seem to work.
Fear of failure – Nobody wants to fail and nobody wants to lose, it is terrible and traumatizing to have both. I want you to look at failures as special and valuable lessons once mastered will brings success closer to you. You do not need to chase after success. Let her run after you.
“There is NEVER a successful person who has no failures’ stories. In fact the more successful he is the more stories he can tell” by David Leong
No goals in life –“ if you jump into a car and do not know where you want to go, then any destination is your destruction” by David Leong
Start from a simple, a very simple goal. I have a few suggestions. Help to wash the dishes. Or wash and vacuum your own car. Even more interesting which I am doing is to learn to name states and countries worldwide from lizardpoint.com/geography.
Procrastinate – “later”, “tomorrow”, “….but…”, “I will start on a new month”, “let me finish this first then I will begin”. Are these familiar to you? For me, I am good at excusing myself by saying my favourite phrase “let’s start after Sunday since Monday is a public holiday”. People delay the pursuit of their goals due to zilch passion, nothing else.
This entire “Keep The Pace, Watch Your Lace” e-Book or in short ‘KTPWYL’ is all part of the VrooomBiz systems that I am endorsing and practicing in my organisation. I hope you have benefitted from my series of e-Book thus far.
With this, join me next week as we will talk on ‘sight, focus and vision Chapter#1, week #19. I hope you like what you read and benefitted much from it.
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